My overall strategy is very different. I don't think Claude's code is remotely good enough yet, so I don't trust it to go off and do "development" semi-unsupervised. I direct and review everything it writes, and I control the scope and content of every commit. To be a little more precise, Claude's code is generally fine (if a bit over-commented), but Claude rarely produces code structure that is clear, clean and correctly-mapped to the problem domain, to my (very picky) eyes. So I never just turn it loose on a large, multi-commit development task.

Inflation has been kept artificially low in the numbers by excluding things from the basket of goods in order to make the numbers look better. Google it.

Real income has been going down since the 70s. You can confirm that easily.

Entropy is the default state; order and good outcomes are unnatural and require significant energy and focus to impose.

I agree that we should stop sanitizing reality for kids. And we should stop lying to them. There's a movement going on right now to tell children that chattel slavery in the United States was happy fun time.

But in this case the chatbots are trained on internet chatter and internet chatter is pretty fucking critical of fascists and dictators.

That means somebody went into the chat bought and programmed it so that it would not criticize dictators. That is not an accident. That is intentional and involved a lot of work. And it's painfully obvious why. Bai companies want to be able to sell their product to fascists and dictators.

So you have a potentially powerful new technology that's going to transform the civilization and it's in the hands of people who are buddy buddy with fascists. That's a bad thing

When real inflation is devouring your income. You have to live where the work is. Often you have to gamble living in high cost of living areas in order to build up the experience needed to have a functioning career.

For years I've watched people I know confused and frightened because no matter how much they cut back no matter how rough they make their lives they never seem to be able to save any money. Some disaster is always pulling the rug out from under them and if they do start to accumulate savings all it takes is one inevitable engineered recession and they blow through their savings paying for healthcare and food in between jobs.

You need to understand that the entire system is designed to break you. To prevent you from accumulating savings.

This isn't me being some sort of a lefty dipshit. This is how the Federal reserve controls inflation.

When you start to accumulate wealth and savings you start to spend more because you are safe and secure. That in turn has the potential to increase inflation because you've got more disposable income.

So the way that the Federal reserve deals with that is every few years they crank interest rates. Most businesses are running very close to the margins and near collapse. The way they survive is cheap money lets them borrow to get them through lean times. The Federal reserve will crank interest rates to cut off that safety valve so those companies have to fire you and you blow through your savings.

Basically the way we keep inflation low is by keeping the country and everyone in it in a perpetual state of borderline homelessness and poverty.

We could of course just make more stuff but that's not in the cards because that reduces prices in a real and practical way and companies don't like that cuz it's not good for profits.

So you can't really just tell people to live below their means because the system is designed to keep driving those means down and making life worse as a way of containing and controlling inflation without you know, actually making people's lives better...

Not strange if you've ever played a fighting game against someone not into computer games. They learn quickly that by just mashing buttons randomly they can often get a win without actually learning anything about the game. Same principle.

Of course they didn't. The name of the game is "disrupting an industry". Because on paper and in investor pitches, everything is straightforward, simple, and was practically waiting for them.

That reality is more messy, has more edge cases, doesn't always follow your process, is something you don't tell the investors and don't consider in your service until you've had the chance to cash out.

It's almost as if having humans around can sometimes have advantages.

But I'm sure this'll just be seen to add one more robot to the robot taxi. A humanoid co-pilot bot?

People are going to question our disposable culture we can't have that...

I was pretty damn old when I learned what a externalized cost was.

They use a straw. They also cry while eating and standing on a scale because they are never going to get back down to million solar masses at the rate they are going.

It's government protection from predatory and false advertising. If it's on the product or packaging the the maker is advertising that the product is recyclable.

We are a fundamentally breaking down the most basic consumer protection laws in existence. I can't see how this could possibly end poorly for anyone....

The difference is really simple. You cannot lie for money. False advertising is not free speech. Or didn't used to be. Since we've become a kleptocracy and kekistocracy all bets are off.

On the off chance that there is anyone out there who votes republican, and realistically this is being driven by the republicans, they are going to come for your property. It's not a bunch of blue haired college girls telling you to pay for school lunches for hungry kids that are going to take your property. It's the same ghouls and psychopaths we've been dealing with for thousands of years and that we now call the Epstein class.

And if you're still voting Republican in this day and age then you don't have any problem with child sex slaves and a few of you are probably just upset you didn't get an invite to the island. Which is why you need to wake up and realize that they're going to take your property. Because that's probably the only thing you care about.

I'm American, do I need to get a British wife to also know? Honestly, it seems like an odd requirement for a particular piece of knowledge.

Are you sure you're not an LLM?

I think this is the result of their trainers trying to reduce hallucination. And hallucination *has* been reduced, so it's probably been largely successful, but it has produced this era of versions that are concerned about honesty, that claims of honesty or apologies for lack or honesty, are pervasive in their output.

My iron rule is that Claude is not allowed to modify git state, not even to stage or unstage, and definitely not to commit. As long as that rule is followed, any mistakes can be cleaned up easily.